Oregon Bob said:
I don't think so brother, though never tried this item.
Local storage place had some chemical dehumidifiers in small pint sized cups. You exposed the crystals to the air & they suck up the water dripping into the bottom pan. They did remove water, just not enough to change my RH at all. It took time (almost 2 weeks to be used up) & had 4 of them going.
I have humidity issues anyway, so the dehumidifiers & air exchange was the only real option. They didn't impact the room at all. Think these packets work under the same principle & much smaller than what i had tried.
Peace.
Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply...
The claim of maintaining humidity below 30% is a pretty bold statement. It does sound too good to be true. Thanks for mentioning the crystalz. MoldAway is in a 'sachet' bag and I'd think crystals in a pan would be more effective and if that didn't do much for you I doubt if these will do anything in my grow.
My humidity isn't that bad and stays around 50%. That's typical for around here and I haven't had bud rot more than a handful of times in 15 years of tinkering with indoor mj. I use A/C but the dew point is so high outside that I can't pull rh down any lower without adding a big Whirlpool dehum I have which that adds heat which is a challenge that I'm barely winning as it is... or I should say the power company is winning... lol... I have great ventilation, airflow, exhaust, and good temps along with 3 fans in a 2x4x8 closet and maybe I'll just have to be patient for another month when the gulf moisture starts to head south... The next round of girls are just getting started. My temps only go down about 6 degrees at night and I keep good air movement on the plants at night but maybe stronger fans at night are an option.
Unfortunately I just had to jump the gun on a harvest to save my remaining crop from bud rot and that was after I noticed two lil dreaded NANNERS on the biggest bud of the slowest girl. I then investigated the HUGE honkin bud and sure enuf... the cause of the stress I presume, Evil Mr. Botrytis. I already had harvest my fastest maturing girl, was within a day of chopping #2 but had planned on letting #3 go another few days to a week and #4 was only hinting at finishing so it might have had another 3 weeks left had the chain of events of the last couple days not occurred.
Since I had different phenos sharing pots for this test grow it limited my options. The first pheno is very Mazar and 6-8 weeks depending on your harvest pref. It pours on the trichs from late in week 3. If you like your indica trichs clear to cloudy with only a few ambers it's fine smoke at 6 weeks but will fill out slightly and steadily amber up over the next two weeks. The other three phenos look like whatever the male parent was with a good dose of Sativa in all three. Pheno #2 is another keeper. A bit later to start trich production but very decent yield and a bit larger than 12 oz can sized main colas. It responded very well to supercropping, lollipopping and fimming which made the 4 main colas spread out and get very dense but no bud rot on this pheno. Phenos 3 & 4 responded well to the same techniques and had the same look, only a bit slower. #3 was very similar to #2 and was very close at around 90% cloudy with a few amber trichs and I lost maybe a few grams from one rotten spot. I think if #4 hadn't got bud rot and then hermie'd that it would have been killer smoke as it was very sticky when I cut away and tossed about a half oz or so of tainted bud. It looks and smells like decent smoke despite having more time to complete. It had very fat old school large Fosters Lager can sized buds and I'm sure the density was the culprit. But NO fungus for our lungus among us, thank you.
So I said to myself: "Self, would you rather have many sacks of cloudy trich green buds or very few sacks of 40-60% amber trich buds?" Hmmmm... Where are my scissors?
The big honkin hermie had to go and with the bud rot I wanted to stop it from spreading and cut my losses right then and there. Nothing like a few hours of work when you least expect it but that's part of never knowing what you gotta do for your girls and of course your meds!
I got a yield on the low side of around 2.5 or slightly more oz from the very Mazar pheno (#1) that I harvested last week at 8 weeks. It didn't like fimming on the two colas I did it with but did like lollipopping and supercropping. And it's very potent and a great bed time buzz as it makes your eyelids feel like they have the weight of the world on them. You can barely keep them open long enough to have a snack but somehow I manage...
I won't know the yield on these other 3 for another week or so but #2 and #3 looked like about 3-4 oz ea and #4 had 20% larger colas and looked closer to between 4-5 oz. I had split up all the large colas to air and inspect each and it should be dry enough for a good estimate within a week with all of the buds separated and in my well ventilated drying box. Whew! That was a very close one... Overall I'm pretty lucky the herm alerted me to the budrot although I can't say I'm happy to see a herm...
I think I'll end up with around 12-14 oz or maybe close to a lb but we'll see. That's not great per watt but it's pretty decent for a test grow and I know I can get more out of each of these now that I know more about their growth characteristics.
AND I wasn't paranoid about the nanners from the standpoint of seeds on my current grow as I was so close on the other two but the
Botrytis
was more than enought to set the wheels whack! whack! whack! in motion... OUT with the bad... But I had one Avalanche strain girl already in week 3 also in the closet and it was just starting to flower hard so the he/she (#4) had to go. It's strange but I've been craving Thai food ever since...
SO! I don't think I'll have issues 8 months out of the year but I'd love to find something that doesn't add heat to just pull down the rh another 15% in the summer. Come what may I only have about 6 weeks left of the high heat and rh in the dirtyolsouth...
Peace!
